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Museum purchase, through a gift from Geoffrey S. Paul, 2002.100.0 Photograph by David Stansbur…
Mary Porter Belden
Museum purchase, through a gift from Geoffrey S. Paul, 2002.100.0 Photograph by David Stansbury. © The Connecticut Historical Society.

Mary Porter Belden

American, 1795 - 1892
BiographyMary Porter Belden was born in about 1795. She married Dr. Erastus F. Cooke. After her husband died, she continued to live in the Cooke house in Wethersfield. Her sister, Elizabeth Belden Buck, came to live with her after her own husband died in 1860. Mary Porter Belden Cooke died in 1892.
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